Tag Archives: Italy

Via Scarangella – from the Poetry archive

Posted on December 21, 2022 by toritto

via Scarangella – Toritto, Italy Narrow street of ancient age your memories are shining your beauty still as new though your stones were worn well before she was ever born. Your grace is of a young girl twirling; pulling her … Continue reading →

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Eunuch – from the History Archive

Posted on April 22, 2022 by toritto

Photo post-card of the Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, photographed at the Imperial Palace. The Qizlar Agha, was one of the most powerful and sometimes the richest men in the Ottoman Empire until 1908. He supervised … Continue reading →

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Italy, Libya and Eritrea -From the History Archive

Posted on May 15, 2020 by toritto

A poster from the Fascist era advertising the Tripoli Grand Prix in Italian Libya on   March 7, 1933 -Year eleven of the Fascist dictatorship.  Cost of a ticket?   Lira 12 Muammar Gaddafi  is dead since 2011 and Libya … Continue reading →

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Eunuch

Posted on May 28, 2018 by toritto

Photo post-card of the Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, photographed at the Imperial Palace. The Qizlar Agha, was one of the most powerful and sometimes the richest men in the Ottoman Empire until 1908. He supervised … Continue reading →

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Armed Resistance to Fascism – 1922

Posted on February 15, 2017 by toritto

Guido Picelli – Leader of the Resistance The workers of Parma were socialists to the core; among them a sprinkling of anarchists, syndacalists, communists and the left wing Catholic Workers Party. In 1922 Fascism was delivering the counter-revolution, after two … Continue reading →

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From a Tent in Italy

Posted on August 7, 2016 by toritto

In the camp of dreams he s sitting on his balcony in Aleppo; the lights of his city now dimmed the street blackened and empty the clatter of crockery indicating life goes on somewhere; in the dark a distant rifle … Continue reading →

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Channeling Botticelli

Posted on March 16, 2016 by toritto

Simonetta Cantaneo de Candia Vespucci- (1453 – 1476) The face of the Italian Renaissance . La bella Simonetta looking to the distant not at me at the London National Gallery Born in that stern Ligurian region up above the sea … Continue reading →

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Laughing at Mussolini

Posted on February 19, 2016 by toritto

 A Re-Post from 2014    A young Benito Mussolini It’s easy to laugh at Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini today. We see him in those old black and whites. Kind of fat. Bald. Overly dramatic and theatrical.  Silly. Chin thrust out. … Continue reading →

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Enjoy Those Veteran’s Day Sales!

Posted on November 1, 2015 by toritto

A re-post from last Veteran’s Day Veterans Day will soon be upon us. When I was a kid it was still called Armistice Day. It was changed in 1954 to Veterans Day. The original holiday memorialized the signing of the armistice which ended World War I.  … Continue reading →

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The Jewish Fascist

Posted on October 24, 2015 by toritto

  Ettore Ovazza and Benito Mussolini Ettore Ovazza was one of three brothers born into a wealthy and influential  family in Turin. The Ovazza were one of Italy’s leading banking families with all the privilege and power that comes with … Continue reading →

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